Cardio Bike Exercise at Home The Easy, Effective and Enjoyable Way
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A few years ago I just got to the point that I couldn’t bring myself to get out of bed and jog. Jogging had become my sole way of getting cardio exercise and when I stopped jogging (which was my only form of exercise outside of lifting weights) I began putting on weight and my blood pressure levels started increasing and I developed Diabetes 2. Finally after a year of idleness, I got smart and bought myself an affordable upright exercise bike at home: The Schwinn 126 Exercise Bike (Pictured above) which I bought a Floor Model for $325 at a nearby Sporting Goods Store. I’m not sure if the Schwinn 126 is being sold today, its equivalent is the Schwinn 130 Exercise Bike which costs between $282 to $500 depending on the store. You can get it for $282.54 new from my Online Discount Gift Store by clicking this link. It took me about 3 or 4 months till I fine tuned my routine with electronic accessories to make my Cardio Exercise, easy, effective and enjoyable and this is my routine if you want to use this as a rough guide for yourself and make whatever tweaks you want.
1. To start out with I use as I said the Schwinn 126 Upright Exercise Bike. I was told by several sources that an upright exercise bike is a more effective way of exercising than an a recumbent bike which one should only used instead of an Upright bike if you have back problems. Regardless of the exercise bikes you use, I recommend you get one with an attached water bottle holder like the the Schwinn 126 or the Schwinn 130. I also recommend if you live in an apartment building that you get a good floor exercise mat to put your exercise bike over to minimize any noise to your neighbor below. My Schwinn 126 Exercise Bike is very quiet and I have a 3×4 foot exercise mat below it and when I ride it at 2:00 AM my neighbor doesn’t complain. The Schwinn 126 bike is 39″ x 23″ x 12.5″ and comes with an excellent rack on top. You can program the bike for different variable resistance levels. I choose just to use a set resistance and try to ride as long as I can for as comfortably fast as I can to duplicate my jogging. I usually peddle for 30 to 45 minutes at a time and go at least the equivalent of 6 miles. I try to make sure I am peddling at a speed of 12 miles an hour or better.
2. There’s no way I could ride my exercise bike without some kind of video stimulation so I ride it in front of my HD TV and watch either HD TV shows I recorded on my HD DVR or watch Blue-Ray or DVD Movies and use my Harmony Universal remote that fits easily on the rack of my exercise bike to control everything. So at minimum you need a plain TV, at maximum comfort level you should have your exercise bike in front of your home theater. My Home Theater for my bedroom which is where I keep my exercise bike includes a 34″ Panasonic HDTV, a Denon 3801 A/V Receiver, Orb Audio Mod 1 5.1 Speakers and Subwoofer, a Panasonic DMP-BD55K Blu-ray Disc Player, and an HD DVR Receiver from my Cable Company plus my Harmony 676 Remote Control. So I either watch movies or TV shows I recorded while I’m riding my exercise bike which makes the time go by considerably faster and I fast forward the commercials with my remote control while riding my exercise bike.
3. If I want to ride late at night or early in the morning and not annoy my neighbors, I simply ride the exercise bike and watch TV or movies while listening to my Pioneer Wireless 5.1 headphones, the Pioneer SE-DIR800C Dolby Digital 5.1 and turn off my Denon 3801′s volume. The Pioneer SE-DIR800C Dolby Digital 5.1 Wireless Headphones retail for $400 but are available for $249 at Online Discount Gift Store featuring 2010 Gifts at this link.
I hope this article was helpful to you as it is important to get cardiovascular exercise and whether you do it playing sports, jogging or using an exercise bike at home in comfort while watching HD TV and movies, it’s all good. Please check out our large Online Discount Gift Store Click Here and our other Online Discount Stores below which helps support this politically incorrect blog. Thank you.
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